Posted by Chris Lundie from dialin10.eagle.ca (206.186.242.245)on April 07, 1998 at 05:04:34:
In Reply to: Re: Oops we need a new name! Look at http://www.big-rred.com/ ... i know it is in all search engines!! (nt) posted by Marvin on April 07, 1998 at 03:31:53:
Here's how it started...
Back in January, Rendition finally released the RRedline SDK to the public. I downloaded it as soon as my registration was accepted.
My project was going to be porting RRedline to Java. In order to do that, I would have to write a "wrapper" that lets Java applications get to the RRedline functions.
I soon realised that I could probably do the same thing with Glide, and it would be a great way to learn both at once.
Before I wrote even one line of code, I came up with the name "Big Red". Then a very helpful person from Rendition's newsgroups, Greg suggested I use a double R, the same way "RRedline" does.
And that's how it started... Maybe I could write a more detailed history and post it here later? I have some interesting email that details almost everything I did to get Big RRed started.